Document HRFF: Life Mosaic - Land Grabs, Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples

This session is a round table discussion and screening led by LifeMosaic. This session will cover the global situation of land grabs and their impacts on human rights and the environment, as well as describing the leadership from indigenous peoples in global movements for positive social and environmental change.

LifeMosaic will share our approach of using video to empower communities to defend their rights, territories and cultures and decide their own self-determined futures.

We will screen a short called Land Grabs about global rush for land, and another titled Plan de Vida (Life Plan) about the Misak indigenous people in the Cauca valley of Colombia who have developed and are carrying out their Plan de Vida, a unique long-term vision for reclaiming their past and deciding their long-term futures on their own terms.

Both videos are part of the Territories of Life toolkit, a series of 10 short videos that share stories of resistance, resilience and hope with communities on the frontline of the global rush for land.

The round-table discussion will focus on a discussion of how communities organise to determine their own futures, and will connect indigenous peoples struggle for rights to their territories and the Scottish movement for land rights.

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